History Characters / Grounded

* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: It's named Trudy, after Dr Tully's wife. Who might not have appreciated the gesture very much.

* CoolPet: Can be tamed by feeding them bowls of grass slurry. They'll either follow the player around or rest at home in a pet house, providing a bonus to the player's stamina while running. You can also give them a hat made of other bug parts.

* CoolPet: Can be tamed with mushroom slurry, providing the player with a bonus that lowers the rate of their thirst meter drain.

Common pill-bugs who live in the upper yard. Gentle and will leave the player alone unless attacked. Sickly, slightly-weaker variants can be found in the western areas of the lower yard.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Orb Weavers in real life mostly stay on their webs and wait for prey, as opposed to the aggressive wandering hunters they are here. Black Widows are also treated as the toughest spider to kill, resisting all damage and having absurd health, but realistically, they're much more frail than a Wolf Spider.

* BewareTheSkullBase: The Broodmother resides in a spider’s nest it constructed littered with the half or fully cocooned bodies of the insects it has killed and devoured.

A souped-up ARC.R found in the black ant lab. Acts as security for the various labs.

* KingMook: As described above, it's a slightly-more-advanced ARC.R model with a couple more advanced tactics up its sleeve. Even the key item it drops confirms this.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: As mentioned below, this thing hunts the inhumanly tough Broodmother.
* DamageOverTime: Its sharp scythe-like arms will cause you to bleed, dealing damage over time if you don't perfect block its attacks.

* MightyRoar: When it rears back, it screams loudly which can increase your exhaustion time if it is not perfect blocked.
* ShoutOut: While the boss itself is not, the Assassin Set one makes from its corpse and the accompanying scythe are a reference to Marluxia from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''.

* WorthyOpponent: Tully determined that the Mantis will only appear to someone it deems worthy of challenging it. The way to do this is to provide it with proof of the kill of something ''it'' would hunt, in this case the remains of the Broodmother from the Hedge.

* DamageOverTime: Most of her attacks inflict poison, which will quickly sap away your health unless you use Mithridatism or a waspidote.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The skeleton of an OMINENT agent can be found at the base of the Wasp Queen's summoning eggs. It's even impaled by a stinger to the ground.
* FlunkyBoss: She will occasionally call forth wasps and wasp drones to assist in her fight against you, scaled by the amount of players. Thankfully, they are much weaker and aren't FriendlyFireproof.
* StoneWall: Compared to the mantis, her attacks mostly deal damage in the 60-90 range to the Mantis' 90-''175'', and unlike the mantis' [[DamageOverTime bleeding strikes]], the poison the wasp queen inflicts can be heavily mitigated via Mithridatism mutation or the waspidote smoothie. However, she has ''5000'' health to the Mantis' 3400, and up to 87.5% damage reduction to the mantis' 75% damage reduction. Combined with her mostly aerial nature, healing from wasp drones, and resistance to ranged attacks means you'll be whaling on her for a long time.

* BossRemix: Funnily enough, her second and third phase music is a fast pace remix of the original Broodmother theme.

* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: Most of her attacks can cause lower healing and lower damage resistance that last the entire fight, and they stack. Take too many hits, and the fight can become unwinnable.
* LightningBruiser: The original Broodmother hit like a truck, but was rather slow paced in her attacks. The Infected Broodmother however hits like a freight train, and has the speed to match one.
* MarathonBoss: The only boss in the game to outright have MultipleLifeBars instead of just phases that change at health threshodls. She also heals from explosions, which she causes regularly as part of her fight. This turns the fight into a DPS race to cut down her monstrous health pool before her debuffs stack up too much.

* MixAndMatchMan: The Mant has visible ant parts, fungi sprouting from it's body, and muscle sprouts.

** Stage 3: Schmector activates a set of wall mounted lasers the player has to dip and dodge.

* {{Foil}}: To the crow. The crow is a harmless winged creature, who drops valuable resources, and appears occasionally. The koi fish is a dangerous leviathan who also drops valuable resources, and never goes away.

* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly to himself as the others tend to tease him. That said, his comments are often drippling with his awkwardness.
-->'''Pete''':I’m not sure putting my hands to my face works better than my glasses.

* PunnyName: His name is a play on actual bogs, a form of wetland that accumulate decayed vegetation into a new form called Peat.

* ScoutOut: Was a member of the local scouts troop in his youth. Naturally, that experience comes in handy.

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: After Trudy and the kids leaves him,and his raisining condition grows worse he starts drinking and pushing himself to work on mutating things with raw science. This unfortunately gives birth to the mutated fungi that mutate the bugs in The Haze. After seeing this, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he realizes he’s made a mistake,]] vows to fix himself and everything, and retreats to the black ant lab.]]

* RobotBuddy: Helps the player out by giving advice, and can offer valuable blueprints in exchange for raw science.

A mishmash of raw science, haze fungus, muscle sprouts and ant parts, created by Dr. Tully to function as a remote body he could control to continue his research. This backfired however when it regained its sentience, and now guards the inner sanctum of the Undershed Lab. Dubbed the '''Mant''' by Wendell after a creature from his son's playsets.

* HumanoidAbomination: A bipedal monster conjured of fungi, muscle sprouts, ant parts, and raw science.
* ItCanThink: The Mant is mentioned by Wendell to have gained sentience, and fighting it demonstrates it has som level of cognative thought and reasoning, such as blocking attacks, changing strategies when the teens get out of range, or sending in ants as cannon fodder.

* MonsterModesty: Inexplicably wears a pair of tighty-whities.
* OrganicTechnology: A golem made from various animal parts and infused raw science.

* ThreeHitCombo: The deadliest attack in the Mantis' repertoire. When the Mantis rears back slightly, and tilts its head to the side, it will unleash a ''brutal'' triple slam attack with its arms. Unless you have maxed tier 3 armor or are playing on mild, this attack WILL kill you if not dodged or blocked.

Various small but hostile insects commonly found in large groups. There are four distinct types - lawn mites found in the lower yard, infected mites in the Haze biome, dust mites around the shed and ticks found in the northeast upper yards, mostly around the large stump.